Weeknote 210/211
One week in and i’m already behind. While these weeks are mostly filled with work i did find some time for holiday spirit. Luckily weeknotes can remain solidly corporate and staid so i will not go into that, at all.
As this was the time of the big holiday fresh.li update i spent many hours counting down to that special moment while upgrading the app to the latest cake release and rewriting the way images are resized. I’m now almost happy with the way i’ve set things up which is quick, not utterly reliant on Amazon S3 and easy to swap out for something running on it’s own server should all hell break loose.
Besides a few blank screens during upgrade time probably none of my fresh.li users noticed anything. The update consisted mostly of backend fixes and upgrades. Sylvia and i did clear the way for a new template, a new payment system and some other goodies though so we’ve assured ourselves of some good hours of work over the weekends to come.
Besides that my time was spent mostly on two big clients with two big deadlines. Both Cake projects and both cool in their own ways but i’ll just post link when their up and running.
Today was mostly spent trying out the awesome Djangy service (thanks Killian), which is Heroku for Django which is basically web application deployment made painless. If you have no idea what i’m talking about imagine being a writer. One day you decide your little opus might actually be finished and instead of calling your publisher you just upload it to xyz.net, hit publish and bam! your book is on Amazon for everybody to buy. It’s like that only replace books with code and publisher with IT department.
Also DODlab posted our announcement regarding /dev/haag, were now expecting 15-20 people and we have a few workshops lined up. Still have room for more though so feel free to join us the 21st.
